Tamala (Pensa)

Urban-type settlement Tamala Тамала flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Tamalinski Founded 1870 Urban-type settlement since 1966 population 7476 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 205  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84169 Post Code 442900 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 258 551 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 33 '  N , 43 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '40 "  N , 43 ° 15' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

Tamala ( Russian Тамала ) is an urban-type settlement in the Oblast Penza in Russia with 7476 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 140 km as the crow flies southwest of the administrative center of Penza, not far from the source of the Tamala, a right tributary of the Chopjor . Tamala is not far from the borders with the neighboring oblasts Saratov and Tambov .

The settlement is the administrative center of the Rajons Tamalinski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Rabotchi possjolok Tamala.

history

The place was created in 1870 in connection with the construction of the Tambov - Saratov railway line of the then Ryazan-Uralsk Railway, when a station named after the river and a nearby village was built there.

Until the 1920s, the village and station settlement of Tamala grew together. On July 16, 1928, the place became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1966 Tamala received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	1825
1939	4191
1959	4590
1970	6670
1979	8109
1989	8577
2002	8062
2010	7476

Note: census data

traffic

Tamala has a station at kilometer 612 of the railway line Moscow  - Ryazan  - Tambov - Saratov opened on this section (and continuously) in 1871 .

Six kilometers to the south there is a connection to the regional road Kirsanov  - Rtishchevo  - Saratov, which follows the railway line . To the north, a regional road leads to Belinski, 50 km away, on the federal trunk road R208 Tambow - Penza, and to the north-east, a road to the regional road Kamenka  - Bekowo, 40 km away .

Web links

• Official website of the district administration (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)